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Galler-Rabinowitz joined other accomplished skaters in the 35th annual “An Evening with Champions” benefit, which has raised more than $2.1 million for the Jimmy Fund since it was started by then-Harvard student John Misha Petkevich...
That year, an Eliot junior and Olympic figure skater named John Misha Petkevich ‘72 met several “Jimmy Fund kids” while at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. He was so moved that he decided immediately, with his friend John Powers, to put his own exceptional talents to their benefit in any way he could. What had begun in concept as a figure-skating show for the kids themselves evolved almost immediately into a fundraising event for the Jimmy Fund, a one-time-only gathering of “Misha?...
...event, started in 1970 by John M. Petkevich, ’71, has raised over $2 million over the past 30 years...
inspiration for EWC. Petkevich, then a junior at Harvard, met several children being treated for leukemia...
...Petkevich and other students at Eliot House decided to help these children, and others like them. A few weeks later they organized an exhibition of nationally ranked figure-skaters in the first Evening with Champions show to benefit the children with cancer...